"Wanted to post my observations from the game last night but will lead
the analysis to the pros on the site. My sister and I sat right behind
Rockets bench which was great but we had 5 or 6 hecklers sitting right
beside us that were super annoying. They were talking trash and
screaming literally the whole game. I wanted to punch them in the face.
=)
First, Jeremy looked good during warmups. He was making a lot of his
jump shots. Not sure if they showed this on TV but Parsons, Harden and
Lin have a new pre game ritual. Harden and Parsons facing each other
with Lin facing away from them. Harden brushes Parsons hair, Parsons
brushes Harden's beard. They do a couple other things that I missed then
at the last second Jeremy turns around and they all bow towards each
other.
First half was really hard to watch. Looks like dwight and Harden were
super lazy on defense. Dwight constantly looks to throw outlet pass to
Harden or Parsons. Jeremy was getting really frustrated. There was a
play where Coach Mchale was yelling at Jeremy to run a certain play
(Index finger and pinky finger raised). Looks like this is a type of
"horns" play where they set double screens for Jeremy at the top of the
key (one pick on each side). Jeremy calls the play, Harden gets the ball
and goes iso and misses.
Mchale then calls time out and yells at Jeremy. Jeremy yells at Mchale
back. I heard Jeremy say something like, "I AM trying to run the play."
Mchale then yells at Harden and Harden just walks away from him. Mchale
then looks at Jeremy and shrugs his shoulders kind of like, "there's
nothing i can do."
Jeremy reall looks like he is not having a good time playing. He was
constantly being yelled at by Dwight and Parsons between plays. To be
honest, I really don't know why they were yelling at him. There were
couple time where Jeremy wasn't even involved in the play.
In 4th quarter, Jeremy checks in at 8 minute mark on his own. He looked
at Mchale while walking to check in kind of like asking "I'm checking in
right now right." Made me think maybe they have set times they check
in?
At the end of the 4th, AB was set to check in for JEremy during garbage
time. Jeremy was playing well. I saw AB walk back to the bench on his
own and heard him say to Mchale, "Jeremy's doing his thing. Just let him
play."
